Selection shall be made under five categories following the rules of reservation inforce at the time of publication of the selection list.

• Open Competition (31%)
• Backward Class (Others) (26.5%)
• Backward Class (Muslims) (3.5%)
• MBC/DNC (20%)
• Schedule Caste (15%)
• Schedule Caste (Arunthathiyars) (3%)
• Schedule Tribe (1%)

Candidates seeking admission against ST/SC/SC(A)/MBC&DNC/BC(Others)/BC(Muslims) quota should obtain the certificate of social status in the prescribed permanent community cards and produce at the time of admission.

For Communities linked with Districts the candidate should obtain their Community Certificate in the respective districts only.

Note :

• No persons who professes a religion different from Hinduism or Sikhism shall be deemed to be a member of a Scheduled Caste.
• A member of the Scheduled Caste on conversion to Christianity will be considered only under Backward class Christian and not under Scheduled caste, for admission purposes.
• A member of the Scheduled Tribe will however continue to be treated as such a member irrespective of whether he/she is a convert to any religion or is a dicondent of such a convert.
• A candidate who claims to belong to Scheduled Caste by virtue of reconversion should give full details regarding dateof reconversion and whether the candidate on such reconversion is accepted by members of the particular community of the locality where he/she resides as belonging to that particular community which he/she claims to be and submit the copy of relevant certificate for reconversion for competent authority and the copy of Gazette notification to the effect.
• ST / SC / SC(A) / MBC & DNC / BC (Others) / BC (Muslims) candidates are eligible for selection under Open Competition in addition to the reservations made for them.
• The ST candidates should obtain the Community Certificates only from the, RDO or Sub Collector or Assistant Collector of their native division or Collector of their Districts or P.A. (General) to Collector of Chennai.
• Candidates are warned that if the community recorded in the certificate producedby them, even though issued by competent authority is not included in the list of ST/SC/SC(A)/MBC&DNC/ BC(Others)/BC(Muslims) or if the community certificate is not issued/signed by the competent authority or if the community certificate is not in the form of the Permanent Community Card. They will not be considered as belong to ST / SC / SC (A) / MBC & DNC / BC(Others) / BC(Muslims) as the case may be. They will beconsidered only as “OTHER COMMUNITIES” and privileges that have been given on the presumption that the candidates belong to ST / SC / SC(A) / MBC & DNC / BC (Others) / BC(Muslims) will be withdrawn.

No correspondence in this connection will be entertained.